A fast digitizer for single transient analysis is described which is composed of a microcomputer‐based image processor and a TV camera attached to a 1‐GHz oscilloscope. Oscilloscope traces are viewed by a TV camera and displayed on a TV screen in a digitized form. The corrected data can be accumulated at 1.5 s intervals. The system has been used successfully for measurements of nanosecond single transients in a study of optically induced spin polarization. Hardware design, software, and experimental performance are described.

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